Closer’s CBB columnist Nicola McLean: ‘I like Katie Price, but Calum Best has got this!’

Katie Hopkins really let herself down last night and, in my opinion, lost herself the show, when she decided to let bygones be bygones and play friends with Perez.

It was so sickening to watch and Michelle Visage actually had to leave the room. Katie then went into the diary room and stuck the knife in, saying Michelle can't stand her being nice to Perez…

Hold on a minute: wasn't it Hopkins that wanted everyone to alienate Perez, and got very cross and p*ssed off at the likes of Nadia and Alicia because they choose to speak to him? But now that she thinks it's OK to speak to him, everyone else has to understand that? Total rubbish from her!

In the first of the night's evictions we saw Kavana's time in the most explosive Celebrity Big Brother house ever come to an end.

I have to say that Kav came across very well in his exit interview with Emma, he was a nonexistent housemate for the first few weeks but started to come into his own, and I for one loved Kav when he was drunk.

He was funny and real, albeit a little troubled when drinking vodka and, by his own admission, he shouldn't drink it. He said it's like the Devil's drink, but spoke honestly about how he turned angry in the house when drunk.

Kav looked happy to be out and wants Michelle to win! He was hysterically funny on Bit on the Side later in the evening – it’s such a shame we didn't see that side of him in the house!

Next out was, in my opinion, the most hated man on TV at the minute: Perez Hilton. He left to deafening boos, and I still don't believe he was happy to be out and I definitely think he wanted to win!

I think Emma could have given him a rougher ride, although to be fair he didn't give her much time. He rudely talked over her and boy that man can talk!

Unlike Kav, Perez was full of excuses saying (repeatedly) that he had to be prescribed sleeping pills in there as he couldn't sleep. In my experience no one sleeps well in there, it's an alien way to sleep: on a TV show with people walking behind the mirrors, the temperature not how you like it, not to mention people snoring etc.

But that's not an excuse for his continuous bad, and at times offensive, behaviour. He played the whole 'I'm a nice guy who felt like I had to put on the Perez show so I didn't get hurt,' which I think is bullsh*t.

He was just an attention seeker out to cause aggro for anyone who didn’t want to be a part of the Perez Show. He is a very odd man. When asked who he wanted to win he said Calum Best which, after their row, I was surprised by, but it leads me nicely on to my prediction on the winner…

I think Calum Best has got this! I love Katie Price too, but Calum has been in it from the start. People will have had a preconceived idea of him as a womanising playboy, but he has shown lots of good elements to his personality:

He has kept his head when he needed to, lost his temper when appropriate, was a gentleman, gave viewers hopes of a romance, looked after Cami Li AND has been the only eye candy in there… so I think he will win.

Standing up to Perez made everyone notice him for something more than his looks and tattoos! He did well to hold his tongue with him for all those weeks, only really losing it when Perez had pushed him too far.

Katie Price has done so well and shown the public she isn't the crazed party girl we saw after her split from Peter Andre. I know from my recent heartbreak that you act in crazy ways when you're depressed, and I think the public have judged her harshly.

She would be a great winner, but she has been quiet and not involved in much of the main action in the house. I like her and I also want Michelle up there, although I’m a tad disappointed that she started so well and has faded out towards the end.

I’m so looking forward to the last couple of shows without Perez in the house so the final few can relax and enjoy their last days in there. They deserve it! May the Best man win!”